The Reavers
Post-physical galactic manufacturers rumored to be secretly allied with the Dream, and the paranoia of the hour.
Story so far
As the Syndicate Council tears itself apart over the no-confidence vote against Glory, everyone suddenly starts accusing everyone else of secretly being agents for the Reavers. Baroness Victory considers the more interesting possibility to be that The Dream itself is Reaver-aligned — Juice Box insists they are not, but Victory points to Epitome Tagg secretly starting down the post-physical form path as a reason he would hide any association.
The strategic logic is stark: the Dream provides food, the Reavers build just about everything else, and an alliance would be a mega-monopoly. The only reason the Reavers have no foothold in food production is that people do not trust them with it — Dream licensing agreements are hardly better, but nobody worries about being shepherded toward singularity by the Dream. Tagg's own demands reference finishing his body-swap procedure at the Reaver Castle, with Fang blocking the brain implant until he too was freed — leaving Tagg unaware that castle no longer exists.
Role
The suspected hidden partner of the Dream and the object of galaxy-wide paranoia during the council's collapse.
Relationships
Sources — 34 recorded facts, by chapter
- The last team to join the Bloc truce, completing the eight-team alliance against Carl.
- Robotic showrunners of the current season, notoriously cheap with production costs and lax with NPC security.
- Faction wars competitor who once bypassed Larracos's rings entirely by jumping down the funnel's center.
- Rival Faction Wars team whose warlord, like Carl, prefers to fight at the front lines.
- Mechanical enemy faction whose push for accelerated pet leveling conceals a nasty surprise on the naga side.
- Robot team whose border runs along Shanty Town, where Lucia Mar drinks at a bar on their edge.
- Attacking team holding Spot 9 in the Phase One standings of the Faction Wars.
- Robotic-looking enemy faction that raises rot sticker pets only to weaponize them as diseased suicide bombs.
- Enemy team known for flying machines and pets, largely unaccounted for in the intelligence picture.
- Enemy crawler team whose saferoom door sits inside the crawler castle, letting them attack from within.
- Enemy faction whose paratroopers seize a defensive position inside Carl's base purely to hold a door open.
- Fully robotic corporate power whose mercenary cyborgs form the entire assault force at the barracks hill.
- Enemy shock troops appearing again in force among the northern host.
- The galactic predators King Rust expects to thrive in the power vacuum left by the system's destruction.
- Bloc member whose paratroopers lie unlooted in piles across the crawler base after the assault.
- Warlord Fang's robotic faction, and the power whose rival governments build factories in the Sultanate's cheap-labor system.
- Bloc-aligned team in spot 9, currently at odds with the orcs of the Skull Empire.
- Faction assigned to Boomer, which opens the war by firing smart seeker missiles at Party Planner.
- Enemy faction holding its military back to defend its stronghold, its missiles already drawing off the orcs' anti-air.
- Enemy team whose realm Carl's cloaked airship enters, triggering a war-state warning.
- The faction whose castle Boomer raids, and whose main force — like the Madness's — remains unaccounted for.
- Enemy faction defending a castle against Boomer's assault, guarded from the air by a gravity-magic drake.
- Faction whose castle is under attack by Boomer and Louis, with their army conspicuously absent.
- Warlord faction whose entire missing army turns out to be buried in Eris's pile of witnesses.
- One of the four teams still standing on the battle map as the war mage crisis begins.
- One of the five remaining teams, their soldiers marked as flesher targets inside the ball.
- Their castle stands abandoned to robot security while their warlord turns out to be inside the ball.
- Enemy faction whose remaining army, packed into the battle-formation ball, is the target of Donut's War Crime.
- Hundreds of cyborg Reaver mercenaries were caught in Donut's paw and shredded through Li Na's chains.
- A cybernetic corporate faction that grows its citizens from a preserved brain, its mercenaries now all dead.
- Faction destroyed when its castle detonates, its warlord dies, and all assets transfer to the Princess Posse.
- The cyborg power whose physiology and network underpin both Fang's and Tagg's survival.
- Defeated faction whose former territory the party crosses, complete with a buried saferoom and its trap ring.
- Post-physical galactic manufacturers rumored to be secretly allied with the Dream, and the paranoia of the hour.